Senate Roll Call 56, 94th Congress · March 11, 1975
TO AMEND S. 7, PROVIDING FOR THE REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF SURFACE COAL MINING OPERATIONS, BY WITHDRAWING FROM ALL FORMS OF SURFACE MINING ANY FEDERAL COAL DEPOSITS WHERE THE SURFACE IS OWNED BY ANOTHER PARTY.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
Policy area: Mines and mineral resources — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.
How this vote is scored
Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.
- Climate & EnergyA yea counts toward “Climate action”
model(0.90): Restricting surface coal mining advances environmental and climate priorities.
Tagged by: keyword:coal
Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (40)
- James George Abourezk
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Clifford Philip Case
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- James Oliver Eastland
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Robert William Packwood
- John Orlando Pastore
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Varick Tunney
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (57)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- William Emerson Brock III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- John Little McClellan
- James Albertus McClure
- Gale William McGee
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Frank Edward Moss
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- James Blackwood Pearson
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- William Stuart Symington
- Robert Taft Jr.
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (2)
- James Lane BuckleyDid not vote
- Rupert Vance HartkeDid not vote
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